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Gospel-Unity vs Legislated-Unity

A big issue in the
U.K. has been multi-culturalism. This has been experimented with for decades,
but in the last twenty years, because of immigrants increasing in numbers, the
concern has increased. Cultures are remaining separate, and so dividing the
nation and causing tensions. Certain laws have been legislated, but
Governmental imposition really has not worked. Immigration has to develop into
integration, that sadly has not happened. The tensions and disparity in
cultures cannot be legislated away. The only way that politics has is to have a
stern hold over all sections of society. A method that keeps an uneasy peace,
and is not a meaningful answer.

But when we read about a multi-cultural society in
the Bible that gathered at Jerusalem, then we see that a spontaneous means is
the only answer. In Acts 2, we read of a number of nationalities coming
together under the preaching of the Word of God, and entering into a single
experience. “Partheons, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in
Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and
Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of
Rome, Crete and Arabians heard the Gospel in their tongues concerning the
wonderful works of God. And all that believed were together.” The Gospel can
unify a society of many cultures.